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  • From: Peter Kirk <peterkirk AT qaya.org>
  • To: "Read, James C" <K0434995 AT kingston.ac.uk>
  • Cc: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Gen22:13 YHWHYiReH
  • Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2005 11:50:07 +0100

On 15/08/2005 01:48, Read, James C wrote:

In Gen22:13 Abraham names a place YHWHYireh. In BHS this is pointed as Y:HWaHYiR)eH. Do we know where this place was? Has the name of the place been preserved? Is this pointing original or a masoretic substitution?


For a start, this is verse 14.

And then in the Hebrew this is two separate words, pointed and accented as such: YHWH yir'e. YHWH is pointed in its most common way, with just sheva and qamats. Yir'e is a regular verb form, the Qal YIQTOL of R'H, and so should be translated "is/was/will be seeing" - and in fact precisely the same form is used in v.8. I suppose the common translation "provides" or "will provide" in these verses is taken from the context. Thus this apparent place name is in fact a complete sentence consisting of two words.

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